THE POWER OF INTENTION REINVENTING THE (PRAYER) WHEEL
EXHIBITION
MARCH 1 – OCTOBER 14
We may not think of intentions as sources of power, but our intentions define the quality of any action. We can use our intentions to empower us to create positive change for ourselves and others. Inspired by Tibetan prayer wheels, The Power of Intention: Reinventing the (Prayer) Wheel brings together select examples of traditional and contemporary art to illuminate the relationship between our intentions, commitments, and actions. Prayer wheels are ritual objects containing thousands, even millions of written prayers and mantras.
The clockwise rotation of the wheels—set in motion by the power of a hand or the elements—is believed to release the positive energy of the prayers into the world.
Taking the Tibetan prayer wheel as a metaphor for the power to create positive change, the exhibition highlights key ideas related to prayer wheels and their processes of creation, activation, and meaning. International artists Monika Bravo, Alexandra Dementieva, Youdhistir Maharjan, Charwei Tsai, and Scenocosme’s Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs met den Ancxt take the Tibetan prayer wheel on a conceptual spin, and their works manifest in visible and tangible forms the power of intention, commitment, repetition, accumulation, and belief.
THE WHEEL OF INTENTIONS
Empower your own intentions by turning The Wheel of Intentions, an interactive installation in the Museum lobby created by Potion and Ben Rubin, based on a concept by the Rubin Museum. Activate your intentions and reinforce the intentions of others with each turn of the wheel as they are released into the world and see how they travel up the spiral staircase and take visual form within the Power of Intention exhibition.
Image: Alexandra Dementieva, “Breathless”, 2002, interactive installation
Credits:
Production & sponsoring : Cyland MediaLab
Co-production : VGC (Vlaamse Gemeenschapscomissie) (BE), Adem vzw (BE)
With support of : iMAL asbl/vzw, Flemish Ministry of Culture
Programming and engineering – Aleksey Grachev, Sergey Komarov, breath detector – Interface-Z, construction work Peter Maschke.
